Friday, February 29, 2008

Cake Glorious Cake

I bought Molly some knitted cupcakes from ebay for her birthday last year, pre-knitting days. Oh they are so cute! So now I am feeling a bit more confident, I have been working on making some for myself. The first few attempts were a bit dodgy (too round...like a Christmas pudding!) or too big. In the end I realised I needed a different yarn (aran instead of DK) and lo and behold, here is the result! I am really pleased with them :)

Am knitting a set of six for one of Molly's friends birthday present next week.

I am so proud of them, I am going to share the pattern. I hope its readable, I have no experience in writing patterns! Feel free to make up for your own use or for charity, but please dont make them for profit. Thats a bit rude.

[This is an amended version of the pattern as of 23/3/09 which gives the same result but is (hopefully!) a bit clearer re the method of increasing for the cake part. Let me know if there are any other glitches.]

4mm needles, aran yarn (I used Patons Toddler Aran)

M1: Pick up loop between stitches and knit into the back of it to make an extra stitch.

Chocolate buttonCO 6stStarting with P, stst 8 rows. Thread yarn through stitches and round edges of work. Pull tightly to make ball. Sew onto cake, passing the thread through to bottom of cake to fasten off to give a little 'dip' in the centre of the cake.

Just adore the pic so rushed out and bought a selection of colours to start getting creative with your pattern myself. Have been looking for a nice cupcake knitted pattern for ages and ages. Even though it's summer and very warm in Australia at the moment I'm mad to knit as much as I can.Thank you for sharing this!

I've just excitedly sat down to try these and am stuck on the first row! If I cast on 7 and then make 5, won't I end up with 12st? I'm a fairly new knitter, so please tell me if I'm being an idiot! I'd love to write a pattern, your cakes are sooo fab, thank you for sharing!

I've made about 25 of these BeeKnits' cupcakes so far and love the ease of the pattern. Just do as the pattern says. After casting on your 7, start row 1 and increase where it says. You will have 11 to pearl on row 3.I've actually found that one more or less stitch doesn't affect the pattern when you make it up.Check out my blog as well for my results with this lovely pattern.Happy cupcake knitting! They are so satisfying to make.

Hi Dodie-I've made about30 of these lovely cakes from bee's pattern, and 60 is right. You need the cupcake case to fit comfortably around the cupcake, especially if the cake stuffing is generous. Just experiment with your tension and see. I've also tried the pattern with 3ply wool and 3 mm needles and the proportions are still good. This IS the BEST pattern around!I have illustrations of them on my blog as well under Wool-cupcakes, or somesuch as well as on my Ravelry project screen.Have fun :)

Hi! These look great and I was just reading through the pattern to make sure I knew how to do it first; I don't quite understand the "Pick up and knit 28 stitches on row ends" part for the case? I'm not sure what that means. If someone could explain that would be great. <: Thanks!

Ohh I love this :-)) i am from norway and i woud love cupcakes like this. Do you æll them? Do you want to swap in something that i make? I knit and make a lot og orker things. Sorry that ny english weiting us bot that good. I love your blog. Best regaeds Thora.

I love this pattern! I have quite a lot of different colour wools left over from other projects so have decided to make some of these cakes! I'm still a bit of a beginner and don't really understand where I need to 'pick up and knit' 28 stitches, do you just stagger it along the length of the 60 rows?

Read that you amended the pattern but its still not correct. To K1,M1 5 times on the first row of the cake you have to have at least 10 sts on the needle - not 7. And if you have 10 sts on the needle you will end up with 15st not 11. Please clarify the method.

I found that it you only cast on 6 stitches, you can follow the pattern as written and get the exact stitch counts. Also, if you decide to use dpns to knit in the round, then change the purl rows to knit. I figured that out by accident.